About a year and a half ago, I began reporting on a story about the "state" of science journalism, which may finally see the light of day in an upcoming issue of CJR.

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News company MSNBC (which is owned by Microsoft and NBC Universal) has bought Newsvine, its first acquisition after 11 years in business. According to MSNBC's own reporter, Newsvine is "a small but innovative player in what is known as 'participatory journalism'."

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An interesting case of blog-coordinated collective action occurred last night, when the TPM Muckraker blog asked readers to help with sifting an enormous heap of political documents.

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Phil Graham, the former publisher of the Washington Post, is credited with the famous saying that Journalism is "first rough draft of history".

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There's an old saying in the news business: "If it bleeds, it leads." And for the most part, readers could take it or leave it.

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In September, a team of scientists, led by paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged, announced the results of a study on the 3.3-million-year-old skeleton of an ancestor of human beings called A. afarensis. The skeleton, found in Ethiopia, appears to be that of a 3-year-old girl.

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But what they're calling "civic journalism" really sounds like "citizen journalism" on a regional basis to me... CBC Television will cancel the Canada Now early evening national newscast next February and move to one-hour regional newscasts at 6 p.m. across the country.

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If the twenty-first-century news business has a Zapruder film, it's an eight-minute Flash-based movie called EPIC 2014.

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The publisher of "America's newspaper" is turning to America to get its news.

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The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?

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Jaron Lanier is a man of many talents—virtual-reality pioneer, New Age composer, visual artist and artificial-intelligence scientist.

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-- When the history of the online media revolution is written, 2006 should merit special mention as a turning point for the blogosphere. This is the year, for better or for worse, when bloggers earned their first official media stripes.

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This is an article I wrote about the need for a new news, and the contributions of Newsvine, OhmyNews, and Telepolis to trying to find a model to create a 21st century form of news.

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Ethan Zuckerman, blogging from Al-Jazeera Forum: The final session of the Al Jazeera forum is "Listen! Voice of Youth" - a showcase for some younger student leaders and bloggers from around the region, as well as from South Africa.

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Ethan Zuckerman, blogging from the Aljazeera Forum.

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Describes Feb 1 forum in Qatar at the Aljazeera conference being held. Forum was on the new media and participatory journalism. It would be good to know more of what went on at the forum and to hear more discussion on participatory journalism.

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An article on participatory journalism published on the Italian Journalism Review. The news from lecture to conversation, just as Newsvine. The debate around trustworthiness, legal issues and the relationship between journalists and their audience.

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